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The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translation)“Stunning . . . The raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare.” — The New York Times
Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood & womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned by her husband. Olga’s “days of abandonment” become a desperate, dangerous freefall into the darkest places of the soul as she roams the empty streets of a city that she has never learned to love. When she finds herself trapped inside the 4 walls of her apartment in the middle of a summer heat wave, Olga is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, & the possibility that life may never return to normal again.
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked & captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for.Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (2005), Troubling Love (2006), & The Lost Daughter (2008), now a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal & starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, & Jessie Buckley. She is also the author of Incidental Inventions (2019), illustrated by Andrea Ucini; Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey (2016); & a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (2016). The 4 volumes known as the “Neapolitan novels” (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, &…
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